The Piano Lesson Quizzes

The Piano Lesson Quiz 1

By Elizabeth Weinbloom · Edited by Damien Chazelle · Last reviewed May 31, 2009

1 Where is the play located?

Farrell

Pittsburgh

Scranton

Philadelphia
2 Who wrote the epigram of the play?

Robert Johnson

John Fahey

Skip James

Little Brother Montgomery
3 What is the epigram from?

A poem

A bible verse

A slave spiritual

A blues song
4 When was The Piano Lesson first performed?

1987

1997

1982

1994
5 What role did Samuel L. Jackson play in the Yale Rep production?

Lymon

Wining Boy

Boy Willie

Doaker
6 What is the setting of the play?

Doaker's living room

Doaker's house

Doaker's living room and the truck

Doaker's house and the bar
7 What is distinctive about the piano?

It is old

It is painted

It is backwards

It is carved
8 At what time of day does the play start?

Dusk

Midday

Dawn

Midnight
9 What is Boy Willie's relationship to Doaker?

Nephew

Cousin

Brother

Son
10 What is Lymon's relationship to Boy Willie?

Cousin

Brother

Nephew

Friend
11 Who owns the house?

Wining Boy

Berniece

Doaker

The whole Charles family
12 Who owns the piano?

Boy Willie and Berniece

Ah, that's the question, isn't it?

Doaker

Sutter
13 Where have Boy Willie and Lymon come from?

Next door

Mississippi

Philadelphia

Alabama
14 How did they get there?

By hitch hiking

By truck

By foot

By train
15 Where is Berniece at the start of the play?

Out of town

Asleep

Hiding

At work
16 What is Boy Willie's relationship to Berniece?

Cousin

Son

Nephew

Brother
17 What is in the truck?

Stolen goods

Corn

Watermelons

Cantaloupe
18 Whose truck is it?

Wining Boy

Boy Willie

Doaker

Lymon
19 Who is Maretha?

Doaker's daughter

Berniece's daughter

Boy Willie's daughter

Lymon's daughter
20 What is Berniece's marital status?

Single

Married

Engaged

Widowed
21 What will they do with the melons?

Give them away

Plant more

Sell them

Eat them
22 What is the news about Sutter?

He is dying

He is crippled

He is dead

He is missing
23 How was Sutter killed?

He was murdered

He had a heart attack

He got cancer

He fell in his well
24 What is suspected about Sutter's death?

He killed himself

He was killed by his wife

The ghosts of YD pushed him

He was cursed
25 Where did Lymon get the truck?

He borrowed it

He stole it

He bought it

He inherited it

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